BORN EVERINGHAM, YORKSHIRE, 1878. SON OF GEORGE WINTER (1846-1906) & HARRIET MOWTHORPE (1857-1930), OF 40, EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL AND 7, MILL LANE, BEVERLEY. SON OF A TANNER’S LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. THE FAMILY LIVED AT MARKET WEIGHTON (1881), BEVERLEY (1891) AND HULL (1901 & 1911 CENSUS).
HE MARRIED ADA MAY BLOOMFIELD (1878-1912) AGED 24 AT BEVERLEY. THEY LIVED AT 8, KIRKDALE GARDENS, EXMOUTH STREET, HULL WHERE HE WORKED AS A LABOURER FITTER (1911 CENSUS). HE LATER MARRIED ALICE KERFOOT (1883-1964) AT HULL IN 1915.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 21/11/1915. SERVED AS A SERGEANT, WITH THE 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED ON 06/11/1918, AGED 40. HE IS BURIED AT BETTRECHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “DEARER TO MEMORY THAN WORDS CAN TELL”
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, HARRIET, HIS BROTHERS, CHARLES AND WILLIAM AND HIS SISTERS, CLARA FOSTER AND JESSIE SHEARMAN.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, WW1 MEMORIAL, AT BEVERLEY MEMORIAL HALL WHICH RECORDS 145 MEMBERS WHO DIED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
HIS TWO BROTHERS, GUNNER, VICTOR WINTER, RFA, WAS GASSED AND DIED IN FRANCE ON 17/09/1918, AGED 19. HIS OTHER BROTHER, CLARENCE WINTER, 27078, EYR, DIED IN CAPTIVITY, OF INFLUENZA, ON 30/09/1918, AGED 21.
